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Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Future of U.S. – Pakistan Relations - A conversation with Cameron Munter, outgoing US Ambassador to Pakistan

Cameron Munter served as US Ambassador to Pakistan until
this past summer. He will discuss the often tenuous relationship
between the US and Pakistan in a conversation with R. Nicholas
Burns, Faculty Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project.

Ambassador Munter was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan on
October 6, 2010. Prior to his nomination, Ambassador Munter
completed his tour of duty at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. He
served there first as Political-Military Minister-Counselor in
2009, then as Deputy Chief of Mission for the first half of
2010.

He served as Ambassador in Belgrade from 2007 to 2009.

In 2006, he led the first Provincial Reconstruction Team in
Mosul, Iraq. He was Deputy Chief of Mission in Prague from 2005 to
2007 and in Warsaw from 2002 to 2005.

Before these assignments, in Washington, he was Director for
Central Europe at the National Security Council (1999-2001),
Executive Assistant to the Counselor of the Department of State
(1998-1999), Director of the Northern European Initiative (1998),
and Chief of Staff in the NATO Enlargement Ratification Office
(1997-1998). He has also served overseas in Bonn (1995-1997),
Prague (1992-1995), and Warsaw (1986-1988). His other domestic
assignments include: Country Director for Czechoslovakia at the
Department of State (1989-1991), and Dean Rusk Fellow at Georgetown
University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (1991).

Ambassador Munter was born in California in 1954. He attended
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the universities in
Freiburg and Marburg in Germany. He received a doctoral degree in
modern European history in 1983 from the Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore, Maryland. He taught European history at the
University of California in Los Angeles (1982-1984) and directed
European studies at the Twentieth Century Fund in New York
(1984-1985) before joining the Foreign Service.